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    impervious


    1. Impervious to attack, the enemy threw thick flights of spears


    2. Erin is using her number eight guy, the miner, to advance and he is impervious to bombs


    3. I always had the sensation that whoever it was, they were totally impervious to our surroundings and would ensure that nothing could hurt me


    4. He had thought that she was strong, impervious to pain


    5. “They’re impervious to blades and firearms


    6. Immaturity, however, should not be confused with Innocence; that is to say, an individual impervious to wicked designs; virtuous and childlike in manner; whose artless qualities haven‘t been compromised by age or external designs, for that matter


    7. Such (thoughtless) attitudes are (especially) apparent among certain segments of our Youth who have grown indifferent, if not impervious, altogether, to nuance, irony and wit or subtle designs or delicate shadings that (otherwise) require a receptive imagination rather than taking ―everything‖ at their face value, (as many of them seem to do); conditioned as their minds often are by the requirements of material ―evidence‖ and visual ―proofs‖; neither able to draw inferences nor reach (meaningful) conclusions from underlying sources, opting, instead, for the path of least (perceptual) resistance


    8. ) Adopting conspicuously faulty and (otherwise) self-serving reasoning conveniently side-steps a very important fact; that we all exist in a less than perfect world subject to changing fortunes and other unexpected events that routinely challenge our mettle; and that Nature, however, has its own inestimable manner of compensating each of us with an innate capacity to endure hardships and rise above our present condition however unfavorable or improbable our prospects for a ―better‖ life may appear and that an individual‘s threshold for suffering and privation oftentimes vary in proportion to that individual‘s (mental) endurance and acquired habits in spite of that individual‘s accustomed environment and in any event, such (gratuitous) impressions are problematical at best and should not serve as a litmus test in determining who should or should not be permitted to live or given an equal opportunity to exercise free choice(s) pre-empted by selfish motives indifferent to such rights; motives whose arbitrary designs are (otherwise) impervious to the apparent limits or consequences of questionable solutions whose (hardened) indifference to Life must inevitably diminish the (inherent) value a society confers upon its citizens regardless of their station in life


    9. Too much water, especially where the ground (mind) is otherwise impervious to moisture, however, is unreceptive to the best of intentions!


    10. God is limitless in His Perfection and is therefore impervious to violent emotions or any other emotion for that matter

    11. Therefore, we are witnessing a disturbing tendency of ascribing unseemly behavior to phantom designs irrationally impervious to experience, evidence and final proofs that should (otherwise) correctly inform our actions


    12. The apparent absence of shame and self-respect has provided cover for a number of athletes otherwise impervious to the principles of proper decorum


    13. The men of the vaunted Thorax regiment were still trying to put on their monstrously over-sized armor; they were huge burly men encased in thick sheets of plate metal, almost impervious to arms, even against steam rifles


    14. Hilderich seemed impervious to anything less than the magnificence of the wonders, both natural and technological that surrounded them while on that gangway


    15. But the walnut’s force was spent harmlessly on the Dreadnaught’s impervious barrier


    16. It is not impervious, however, and can be broken in two ways


    17. breakdowns and then hiding inside the insanity, impervious to the


    18. The green magic surrounding them rendered the anthromorphs impervious to the attack


    19. But Batam which was impervious to the taunts and felt no hatred for anyone, ever, had no calluses on his heart, rising meanness in his spirit, always as good Samaritan in adverse cases, never got angry or rebuked my sister Beatrice in no time; so in the long run she gave up the use of the peculiar nickname


    20. His feet were tough and impervious to splinters and rough ground

    21. As for the rest of the spell, it sounds as though it renders its target impervious to the touch of the sun


    22. closed at the sides, and almost impervious to influences touching him at the


    23. Impossible as it seemed, the being seemed almost impervious to the light


    24. He seemed impervious to any pain she could indict


    25. Usually herbivorous, mature boars like Big‘un would eat meat when found and many developed a taste for it, much to the detriment of neighborly creatures; rattlesnakes being a favorite since they were frequently rooted up and never learned that these boars were impervious to their deadly bite


    26. Made of a hard grey iron that looks like it has been integrated with molecular chains of a cobalt hybrid making it shine like jewels in the weak sunlight; and make the building impervious to all weather and ageing


    27. Mohammed carried on whipping him, rhythmically, impervious to the shrieks of


    28. requires a character of mind that is impervious to negativity


    29. He became impervious to reason and thought his own will could operate beyond the limits of hard reality


    30. He scored a phaser shot against one, but it was a wasted shot since the suit was designed to make them impervious to the stun setting

    31. It was impervious to scans, just as the ships in the mass abductions were reported to be


    32. In other words, to put it more simply, he is impervious to bad thoughts


    33. This is how, impervious to the realities of their surroundings, the Musalmans would be able to carve out their pan-Islamic Islands in every place they happen to live in


    34. Sadly thus, the Brahmans, living in the sanctified arenas of their agrahaaraas, were impervious to the happenings in their backyards so long as their privileged position in the polity was ensured


    35. Years of coating have made it impervious to variety


    36. His thick scales seemed impervious to even the scratchiest of brambles


    37. "My name is Ethel Maria-Theresa Neumann-Schultz," said Priscilla, very clearly and slowly; and though she was, as we know, absolutely impervious to the steadiest staring, she did wonder whether this good lady could have seen her photograph anywhere in some paper, her stare was so very round and bright and piercing


    38. Though I felt impervious


    39. nothing worse then impervious packing of powder---it's worse than


    40. I glanced at Medraut and he stood as impervious to emotion as ever; he gave nothing away

    41. "You," Cam said, impervious to Derrick's obvious annoyance, "my friend, have girl problems


    42. But he wasn't really in the mood for their usual banter and Dally was, anyway, impervious to insults


    43. better understand the true nature of this universe, you are impervious to the types of deception used to


    44. The Zoarinians have long been overconfident in their belief that they are impervious to invasion


    45. Exactly the Ether fills the particles and makes them impervious to each other


    46. The sea, knowing what was required of her, threw over them her weeds, encircled them with coral, and encrusted them with shells; the whole was cemented by two hundred years beneath these almost impervious depths, for a revolution carried away the emperor who wished to make the trial, and only left the documents proving the manufacture of the jars and their descent into the sea


    47. Impervious to fear is Rory's son: he of the prudent soul


    48. The impervious navigator


    49. He went his way, amused, contemptuous, impervious to the opinions of those about enigma but an enigma about which she no longer bothered her head


    50. The outlet was blocked with some barrier, but not of stone: soft and a little yielding it seemed, and yet strong and impervious; air filtered through, hut not a glimmer of any light





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    Synonyms for "impervious"

    imperviable impervious immune indifferent invulnerable inaccessible untouched unapproachable impermeable inviolable compact hermetic resistant

    "impervious" definitions

    not admitting of passage or capable of being affected